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Working with the YMCA to Bring Skateboarding to more children in Liberia

3/1/2019

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Enjoy this clip about new skateboarding programs at three schools in conjunction with the YMCA and the nonprofit SaveMoreKids.org.
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News Coverage of FFW's Work Bringing Skateboarding to Liberia

7/10/2018

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​Enjoy this clip about new skateboarding programs at three schools in conjunction with the YMCA and the nonprofit SaveMoreKids.org.
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International Go Skate Day Liberia

6/29/2017

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Foundation for Women Executive Director Deborah Lindholm was on hand at Elwa Skateboard Academy in Monrovia, Liberia on International Go Skate Day to celebrate the amazing progress of program participants. Check out their amazing progress over the past few months going from their flat, basketball court learning area to the open road. Skateboarding in Liberia is providing a fun new focus for kids, building camaraderie between students and  introducing a much needed additional mode of transport. From the confident slaloms to the skateboard handstand, some of them look like they've been skating for years already!
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ELWA Academy Skateboard Club Grateful to Tony Hawk

6/15/2017

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PictureA cross section of the kids listen to instructions as CEO Deborah Lindholm pays attention. Photo ©The Daily Observer, Monrovia, Liberia.
–For 60 Helmets Donation
By Omari Jackson for The Daily Observer, Monrovia, Liberia. Read the full article online. 
​The ELWA Academy Skateboard Club yesterday expressed appreciation to the Tony Hawk Foundation for the donation of 60 helmets to help build interest in the sport. The helmets were presented to the club by the founder and chief executive officer of Foundation for Women, Deborah Lindholm, yesterday during skateboard training at the school’s campus in Monrovia.


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Help us spread the word about Skateboard Liberia

4/19/2017

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A donation of $60 brings another child into the Elwa Academy Skateboarding Club. Help us spread the word about bringing joy to kids who have grown up in the context of poverty, war and even Ebola. This program is incentivizing education for nearly 100 kids now. Help us reach our goal of 500!
Instagram:
  1. If you have a repost app (Repost is a good one) follow the steps to repost the video from our Instagram feed, we're @foundationforwomen).
  2. If you don't have the Repost App, download our one minute video to your computer (right click and select Save Link As).
  3. Transfer the video to your phone using AirDrop (Mac) or email or the GoogleDrive app.
  4. Open Instagram and select the video to make a new post.  Download our 1 minute video.

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Share the link to our Skateboard Liberia page or Skateboard Liberia YouTube video. 
Thank you!
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Tony Hawk Foundation, MissionLine, Harnish Foundation and More Supporting Skateboard Liberia Project

4/18/2017

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FFW's Skateboard Liberia Project
To learn more click any highlighted MISSIONLINE link below.

Operating Model:
Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem, using a structured form of collaboration.
STANFORD SOCIAL INNOVATIONAL REVIEW - Committed Collective Impact
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Founder and Sponsor:
The Foundation for Women is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit and registered non-government organization working to end poverty through microcredit programs and education.
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN - Making Education Fun
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Kids Skateboarding for the First Time in Liberia

2/24/2017

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Thanks to Sector 9 Skateboards, The Tony Hawk Foundation, Awesome Without Borders, Missionlines and individual donors like you, skateboarding has come to Liberia for the first time! Join us in a quick visit to Elwa Academy Skateboard Club to see the kids in their first few days. 
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ELWA Academy Skateboard Club Launched

2/9/2017

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ELWA Academy Skateboard Club
Excerpted from The Daily Observer Read the full article online

The ELWA Academy in Paynesville, outside Monrovia yesterday launched the ELWA Academy Skateboard Club with 72 students from the lower and upper classes. According to the club’s director, Pastor Arthur T. Williams, the launch is meant to offer the students a different form of recreation as “all work without play makes Jack a dull boy.”

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“We selected students from the lower and upper classes,” Director Williams said, “to become members of the club. In fact we were interested in students who showed interest in the sport.” 

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Helping the students with materials for the sport is the non-for-profit organization, Foundation for Women, whose founder and chief executive officer, Madam Deborah Lindholm, donated 18 helmets and 18 skateboards to the club.


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Skateboard Liberia Receives Awesome Without Borders Grant

11/28/2016

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We are thrilled to announce that we are the winners of a grant from Awesome Without Borders. The funds are bringing much needed joy to Liberian children - many of whom have known nothing but warfare and Ebola.

From Awesome Without Borders:
With not much more than a board and four wheels, this nonprofit is skating into Liberia.
On a recent trip to Liberia, Foundation for Women Founder and CEO Deborah Lindholm happened to bring a couple of skateboards along. Lindholm’s foundation is dedicated to supporting women in poverty, and she’s always on the lookout for unexpected, entrepreneurial ideas — and soon enough, she was on a roll with skateboards. Lindholm’s skateboards brought smiles to everyone she encountered. And in a nation devastated by a recent Ebola outbreak and brutal civil war, smiles are sometimes in short supply. Thrilled at the unexpected popularity of the skateboards, Lindholm made it her mission to bring some new fun to Liberia with the simplicity of a board and four wheels.


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Sponsor a Skateboard in our New Skateboarding Liberia Project

10/25/2016

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PLEASE SPONSOR ONE SKATEBOARD - The Foundation for Women is introducing skateboarding to Liberia, a totally new concept to this country. 

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Deborah is returning next week and we are looking for 35 people to each sponsor one skateboard at the cost of $60.00. The skateboards need to be on the plane with Deborah on November 3rd. Watch for amazing updates and video from Liberia soon. Donate now. 

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    Deborah Lindholm with Deborah in Liberia

    About the Author

    Deborah Lindhom is the Founder and CEO of the Foundation for Women. For over 20 years she has lived and worked in Africa, India and the United States on issues of poverty, education and microcredit. 
    "​Just a quick note to say how we appreciate all that you are doing in Liberia and wish we could do more to help. We enjoy reading your newsletters which are always so well written.
    All the best!" ~ Ian and Julie Allen,  Africa and Beyond Art Gallery 

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